Railway-transfer.



A. GINSS. RA|LwAY TRANSFER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14, 1913.

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Patented A151227, 1915.

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Y.ARMAND GINSS, OF DOWNEY, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLESBARRINGTON, JR., OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

RAILWAY-TRANSFER.

v Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr.27,1915.

Application filed November 14,- 1913. Serial No. 801,042.

To all whom 'it may/comma:

Be it known that I, ARMAND GrNss, a citizeny of the United States,residing at Downey, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements inRailway-Transfers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved railway transfer which comprises arailway transfer ticket, such transfer tickets or transfers, as they arecalled, being issued to passengers of street railway, or urban orsuburban railway cars, for the purpose of enabling passengers to changefrom line to line, or branch to branch, or route to route, of therailway ser-vice. In order that such transfers may be properly validatedfor use, and to prevent improper issuance and use thereof, numerousschemes and systems vof provision and arrangement of printed matter,spaces for punching, and the like, have been devised.

The present invention aims at providing more-complete protection for therailway by more effectually preventing improper issuance and unwarranteduse of such transfers.

Further objects of the invention are yto provide an improved railwaytransfer in which a large number of factors and a large amount of datapertinent to car route, time of transfer, day, month, year, togetherwith direction of motion of the car upon which the transfer is issuedandthe direction of motion of the carto which the transfer is made,further together with the route number of the car upon which thetransfer is issued, and the consecutive number-of the transfer, all maybearranged upon a relatively small surface, and the use of and referenceto which will be convenient and simple, as shall alsobe the nal checkingover and tallyingV of the surrendered and returned transfers. l

A further particular object is the provision of an improved railwaytransfer which willbe universal in its applicability to and use upon anentire system of railway routes and4 each of the same, vobviating thenecessity of specially producing `and printing particular and separatetransfers for the several separate routes or branches of the system; and-it also aims at providing a rail- Iway transfer which will permit ofthe adop- -tion and use of simple rules governing the useof suchtransfers, thus rendering theissuance, inspection, validity,surrendering, returning and checking of the transfers eX- ceedinglysimple and accurate.`

With the above and other objects in View, including relatively increasedefficiency, the invention consists of the novel and useful provision,formation, combination and relative arrangement of parts, members andfeatures, all'as hereinafter described, shown in theY drawing, andfinally pointed out in claims.

The drawing is a face-view of a railway transfer ticket formed, producedand printed in accordance with the invention.

Referring with vparticularity to the drawing, in which referencecharacters are utilized to indicate certain featuresof the invention, Ydesignates a suitable rectangular paper blank upon which is displayed ordisposed various data and readings, and upon which various spaces aremarked oflI or laid out, in practising the invention. The blank Y ispreferably of considerably greater length than width. At the top Xthereof is provided the following reading, transversely arranged: LosAngeles Railway. Good only if presented within 15 minutes of time and indirection punched. The space directly beneath this heading is ruled olfvertically to produce a. wide'column a in which are consecutivelyarranged the various headings or names of the routes or lines of therailway system, and two narrow right-hand columns and c, in which,opposite each route named, are arranged respectively the initial lettersof the two Vmain directions in which the cars of the respective routestravel.

In the column a, at the bottom, is left a blank space within which, atthe left, `a vertical series of capital letters is arranged, to Adesignate new routes or lines prior to the inclusion of the namesthereof in the column above, which inclusion takes place when the neXtbatch of fresh transfers are printed. The coinciding spaces in thec'olumns'c and b are likewise left blank for the filling in of thedirection initial letters as may be proper.

column is blocked 0E a space e in which is printed in distinguishingcolor the date of the month. At the right of the column eV are blockedolf five vertical spaces f marked respectively North, South, East,

West and Stop to the right of thesel the right is a similar column Z forthe serial number of the trip ofthe car to whose conductor the transfersare issued. To the right of the column Z are four vertical columns m, a,o, p, all divided transversely into twelve transverse columns withinwhich and within the column m appear hour numbers from 1 to 12,respectively, arranged consecutively from 1 at the top to 12 at thebottom. In the uppermost of such transverse columns, and within therespective vertical columns n, 0, p, are arranged, from left to rightthe numbers 15 30 45 relating to minutes ofthe hour.

It will be understood that the several spaces and columns are blockedoif by suitable lines and rulings; and the several spaces Zi forthe P.M, readings are preferably shaded so they may be readily distinguishedfrom the spaces g of the A M. readings. The consecutive ticket number inthe column 7c and the serial car trip or run number in the column Zare'preferably in a distinguishing color similar to the date reading inthe space e.

In using the transfer, the issuing conductor punches the transfer in thecolumn Z) or c opposite the name of the route his car is traversing, inaccordance with the direction of motion thereof. I-Ie then makes a punchin one of the spaces g or Zt in accordance with the half day of the timeof issuance, and inregistrationwith the proper space f to indicate thedirection in which the passenger wishes to travelupon the connecting orintersecting route. If the route of the car is blocked -or the tripinterrupted, the conductorA also punches the space f printed Stop andthe passenger is then permitted to travel upon the neXt convenient orparal- Vlel line. The proper space Z is punched to designate the currentmonth, or all the blanks may be punched at once when first received bythe conductor in such proper space d. The proper transverse column inthe proper vertical column m, a, 0 or-p is also punched to designate thehour or quarter-hour closest to which the transfer is issued. Thus,ordinarily, but three punches Y are required, and the punch is passedalong the blank in making these punches, the punching operation thusbeing simple and convenient.

Zhen the transfer is presented to the conductor of another car, heexamines it to determine whether more than fifteen minutes has elapsedsince the transfer was issued, and whether the direction in which hiscar is traveling tallies with the direction punched in one of the spacesf g or L. If he does not find these conditions -satisfactory to hisinspection he is to refuse the transfer.

It will be noted that the invention permits of the use of a universaltransfer for all the routes or lines of a railway system, is compact orcondensedin form, is simple and easy in its use and issuance andinspection on surrender, and may be readily checked up or tallied in theoiiice of the auditor of the railway. The rules pertinent to its usewill consist more in a few simple exceptions rather than in regulationsfor current use, as the transfer will readily lit almost everyconceivable combination of circumstances to be met with in any transferof passengers.

Having thus described my invention I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent:

1. A railway transfer comprising a blank provided upon its lface with asingle tabular list of the several routes, including the route uponwhich the transfer is to be issued, also with spaces in alinement witheach name of the list containing characters for designating thedirection in which an issuing car is traveling upon the route, and alsowith spaces containing characters indicating ythe direction in which thecar upon which the transfer may be validly used is to travel.

2. A railway transfer comprisingv a blank provided upon its face with atabular list of the several routes, including the route upon which thetransfer is to be issued, also with spaces in alinement with each nameof the list containing characters for designating the direction in whichan issuing car is traveling on the route, also with spaces containingcharacters for indicating the direction in which the car upon which thetransfer may be validly used is to travel, and also with A. M. and l?.M. indicating spaces having a zone relation with the last mentionedspaces so that the half of the day together with the direction of thecar upon which the transfer may be used can be indicated by a singleoperation.

3. Airailway transfer comprising a blank provided upon itsl face with atabular list of the several routes, also v with -spaces in alinementwith each name of the list containing characters for designating thedirection in which an issuing car is traveling on the route, also with acolumn o'f spaces containing characters for Vindicating the direcc tionin which the car upon which the trans- `fer may be validly used is totravel, and also with parallel columns of A. M. and P. M. spacesarranged transversely in zones with the spaces of the first mentionedcolumn so that the half of the day and the direction of the car uponwhich the transfer may be used can be indicated by a single operation.

4. A railway transfer comprising a blank provided upon its face with acolumn of spaces containing ,characters for indicating the direction inwhich the car upon which the transfer may be validly used is to travel,and also with parallel columns of A. M. and P. M. indicating spacesarranged in transverse zones with the direction indicating spaces of thefirst mentioned column so that both the half of the day and thedirection of the car upon which the transfer may be used can beindicated vby a single operation. 5. A railway transfer comprising ablank provided upon its face with a column of spaces containingcharacters for indicating the direction in which the car upon which thetransfer may be validly used is to travel, also with parallel columns ofA. M. and

P. M. indicating spaces arranged in transverse zones with the directionindicating spaces of the first mentioned column so that both the half ofthe day and the direction of the car upon which the transfer may be usedcan be indicated by a single operation, and also with a series ofparallel columns divided into twelve identified transverse Zones so thata fractional part of the hour of the day can be indicated by a secondoperation.

6. A railway transfer comprising a suit-V able blank provided upon itsface with a tabular list of the names of the several routes of therailway, with identified spaces in registration with each name fordesignating either of two directions in which a given issuing car istraveling on a route, and a space designating the direction in which acar upon which the transfer may be validly used is to travel, togetherwith identified spaces in registration with said last named space andwhereby the half of day in which the transfer is issued may bedesignated by a single operation also designating said last nameddirection.

7. A railway transfer comprising a suitable blank provided upon its facewith a tabular list of the names of the several routes of the railway,with identified spaces in registration with each name for designatingeither of two directions in which a given issuing car is traveling on aroute, and an identified space designating the direction in which a carupon which the transfer may be validly used is to travel, together withidentified spaces in registration with said last named space and wherebythe half of day in which the transfer is issued may be designated by asingle operation also designating said last named direction; saidsuitable blank being further provided upon its face with four parallelidentified columns divided into twelve identified transverse Zoneswithin any of which by a single operation a quarter hour of the day maybe designated.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

'RAYMOND Ivns BLAKESLEE,

ALFRED H. DoEHLnR.

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